Scepter Quotes

We actually go to king school to learn to use the scepter. You first acknowledge the people upstairs who came to view. - Richard Oster

This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, Th. - William Shakespeare

The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. - James Shirley

SCEPTER, n. A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority. It was originally a mace with which the sovereign admonished his jester and vetoed ministerial measures by breaking the bones of their proponents. - Ambrose Bierce

I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man. - Mary Wollstonecraft

I feel strongly that a ham sandwich with a scepter would be a fine Fed chairman. In fact, I think a ham sandwich with a scepter might do a better job because it wouldn't be politically motivated. - James Padinha

After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling. - Pierre Corneille

A little well-gotten will do us more good, Than lordships and scepters by Rapine and Blood. - Benjamin Franklin

[One such item was an early 1900s royal scepter of England's King Edward VII. The lot opened with a minimum of $1,000. Thirty-five bids later, it sold for $40,100.] Any time an item sells for 40 times its opening bid, you've got to give it the credit it deserves... This auction has gone a long way to establishing the standards for many collectibles that to this point did not have benchmarks. - Doug Allen